The Top 25 of 2015, No. 1: “The Donald Trump Show”

Whether you support him or not, you have to admit that no individual in 2015 galvanized the nation like presidential hopeful/GOP front-runner Donald Trump. Tellingly, he accomplished that feat primarily through television, though his presence was felt and hotly debated throughout all media. In terms of overall impact, nothing on television during the last year came close to Trump’s many appearances on cable news networks, broadcast news programs, talk shows and entertainment series.

Ed Martin has written about television and Internet programming for several Myers publications since 2000, including The Myers Report, The Myers Programming Report, MediaBizBloggers and, at present, Planet Ed on MediaVillage.
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